Is there some way to quickly toggle the state of volume normalization in Windows 7? When it's off watching movies late is tricky, and when it's on it messes with music in a bad way.

It's a great feature, but argh, it requires me to make my way through so many dialogs... Any solution that requires no more than a couple of clicks or keystrokes is welcome - shortcuts, Autohotkey, tray icon apps.

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I found this, started out as good news

http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-audio/92783-there-quick-toggle-loudness-equalization.html

You'll find the registry entry located at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\MMDevices\Audio\Render{guid-of-your-output-device}\FxProperties, just change on/off settings and refresh regedit to identify which one is reflecting what you want to check/un-check.

But after attempting the changes, as noted, even when checking "immediate mode" the registry change does not immediately update the setting, requiring a log off to kick in. I've since hunted for a way to somehow refresh the registry, maybe make a inf file that would be installed ? I'm not sure on that front.

I found this close to the answer, it's all bad news, they say from a software developer point of view, that you just can't do it without writing your own system effect.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowspro-audiodevelopment/thread/b028b430-48c5-434b-a644-da192fbf20a5

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Good effort, thanks. It's weird, I sort of agree with the idea of Windows not letting any old program just change any old setting, because that way abusive programs cause grief... – romkyns Feb 2 '11 at 20:01
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sound > speakers properities > enhanceents > [x]loudness equalization

source: http://anderwald.info/windows/normalize-all-sound-output-in-windows-vista-and-higher/

This is not the quickest but user friendly ;P

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It stops being friendly if you switch it all the time :) – romkyns Nov 13 '11 at 1:09
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